Saturday, February 14, 2015

The Final Outcome of the Home Renovation!

Time to update on the final installment of my house renovation. Pardon for the long delay but I need time to put everything together. Have been busy with the upcoming CNY too so I'm sorry for the long wait!

Previously I stopped at Week 4 of my renovation works, after which it was weeks of touching up/cleaning before the renovation finally comes to an end. Just incase you have not read, I've also blog about my thoughts and answers to commonly asked questions about home renovation. So now, here's the final post about it :)

This is my floor plan for recap purpose before I go further into it..



Our home concept which we send to the 3 IDs we met at expo back then...


Derp used photoshop to do up this to show them our idea.

Below are our ideas back then..

Theme: Modern Scandinavian (If you do not know what it mean, in layman terms it mean everything as wood as possible)

LIVING ROOM 
- Hung on wall
- Able to tilt to face dining area (Eventually we didn't have this as we are able to watch the tv quite comfortably at our dining table)
- A suspended TV console and some platforms for photos/deco. (We only had a suspended tv console)

SHOE CABINET (preferably as a partition for privacy)

- Full Height shoe cabinet (Top part as storage, Bottom part shoe rack, Middle portion would be empty to put the keys/miscellaneous items.
- A settee (Till date, we are still finding for a suitable one)
- A full length mirror near to the door for final checking before leaving the house. (We got a full length mirror from ikea and fix it up there)

KITCHEN 

- Theme: Sleek, clean and contemporary. Generally white and brown.
- Built in cabinets on one side of the kitchen, not both side.
- A L-shape kitchen-top concept.

MASTER BEDROOM

- A color theme to match the strip timber flooring
- Walk-in Wardrobe to be L-Shaped Full-height, with a dressing table. (No dressing table in the end due to space constrain)
- A full length mirror next to the air-con ledge window. (We got a mirror from ikea to fix it there too)
- Queen Size Bed
- Baywindow cabinet with storage function (We didn't had this but instead we have 2 bedside table, one on each side)


LEISURE/GAMES ROOM

-  A work area for 2 computers
-  A tv console for PS3/Xbox and etc.
- Approx. 4 velvet chairs and various bean bags. (We have 2 bean bags only due to space constraint)
- A generally dark room. 

Additional notes on leisure/games room: 

- To hack away part of the walls to be made into glass and glass door entrance to the room. 

GUEST BEDROOM

- A bed (Till date, we have yet to put a bed inside yet)
- Bayside window cabinet with storage function

MASTER BEDROOM TOILET

- Colour theme:  Sleek, Clean, White
- A simple glass Shower screen with no doors. Just to block water from spraying onto the toilet bowl
- Small built-in platforms for shower foam & shampoo. (2 to 3) (In the end, we don't need this as the design of our toilets come with a latch which have a depth to put all this stuffs)

We chose all the laminates for the various carpentry before the ID do up the 3D designs. They will do accordingly base on what you have chosen so as to give you a better overall feel of the house. 

So here comes my 3D design (We changed quite a few times but it were minor changes. Our ID didn't charge us for that. Do find out from your ID whether do they charge you if you are unhappy with the 3D design and require for it to be change) : 

Living Room



In actual fact, the TV is another direction but this were to show us roughly how it will look like.


This is the actual placement. 
Leisure/Games room


This final product of this room is much prettier than the 3D design. At least that's what I feel haha! 

Guest room 


We only do up the bayside window storage for this room. 

Kitchen


Master Bedroom


After looking at the 3D image, let's look at the actual pictures of the house taken by yours truly. Took this the night before 1 of the housewarmings we had when the house is in it's neatest form lol. 

I'll go through the items bought in details (I'll try my best) in every photo. Will share the links if there's any at the end of my blog entry! 

Living Room


Overview of the living room (standing at the entrance of the kitchen) 


- 3 downlights and 1 stretch of cove lights are from Tao Bao 

- Those printings on the walls are bought from tao bao and DIY-ed by us :) 

- Dining table and Sofa from La Cafa Furniture and Design. 

- Dining table light from Ikea. 


- Stickers on the electrical box from Tao Bao


Kitchen



Eubiq bought from Eubiq Concept Store @ IMM 

Service Yard


Rilakkuma laundry bag bought from Tao Bao

Guest's Toilet


We didn't do anything much to this toilet since the sanitary fittings came with the HDB flat. 

- Mirror and toiletries stand  from IKEA
- The hair dryer holder and towel/clothes hanger from Tao Bao. 
- LED strip lights from Tao Bao.

 We also use the LED strip lights for the toilets as well as for the masterbedroom cove lights.


And this is how the toilet looks like in normal light. 

Very often we find this too bright so we hardly use this light unless we have to wash toilet, squeeze pimple and etc. 

If not most of the time we will use the dim light. Especially when in the morning or after a hard day of work, dim light provides you a more cosy and warm feeling to make you feel more relax. 

Master Bedroom



This is what you will see before entering the master bed room. The master bedroom toilet is on the right hand side. 



The light at the entrance of the master bed room is from Tao Bao.


Making a left turn and that's where our bed are. 


A closer look. Our little cozy area.


Before we sleep, we usually on this cove lights to use our phones and etc. 

This is the cove lights which I mentioned earlier, they are the same as those in the toilets. We had 2 bed side build in cabinet and there's additional power supply and also a 2 way switch at each of our bed side cabinet. So either one of us can off the lights. 


As you can see, the wadrobe is used as a divider/partition so that when one is changing his/her clothes, the other one who is still sleeping would not be affected. It also help block the lights coming from the master bed room toilet. 

The theme of the masterbedroom is to make it as dark as possible but still keeping brown as the main color. 

Master Bedroom Toilet


- Shower Screen done by ID

- Toilet paper holder from Tao Bao

- The rest of the sanitary fittings are by HDB


- The dim lights are the same LED strips used in guests toilets.


We didn't take down the sanitary fittings from HDB, but instead we add on this 2 suspended cabinets in our toilet  to store our stuffs.

The stickers from from Tao Bao too. Initially, we wanted to paste the sticker on our toilet bowl but the shape of our toilet bowl doesn't really match. So in the end, we paste it here lol.

Guests Room


We only did up the window blinds and bayside window storage for this room. It's currently used as a ironing room/hang clothes room.

The passageway in the house..


And last but not least, hereby introudcing the..

Leisure/Study Room



How it look like from the outside..


The blue wall area belongs to Derp.

- Suspended TV console, build in computer desk and top hung cabinet done by our ID

- One Piece Wall stickers from Tao Bao

- The soft carpet on the floor from Tao Bao

Basically, the concept of this room is to make it as fun as possible. We chose the blinds to be purple so as to blend in with the blue and pink.

Honestly speaking, I think we are very daring and it just come to us one fine day to decide on having 1 wall painted pink and the another painted blue. Since in our whole life, I never have a pink wall and same goes for Derp who never have a blue wall lol.

Everything is blue,pink as they are our individual favourite color.


This is my side! 

- Bean Bag cover from Tao Bao. Beans are being bought locally.

- Rilakkuma wall stick from Tao Bao

- One piece sticker on the glass door from Tao Bao

On the another side of the room..


Our collection haha! Actually this is not the full collection, I've still got some left in my old place. 


Close up of it. 

Most of our guests are brighten up by the view of this actually haha! It's fun in the sense they can see all this when they enter my house. All these collection definitely attracts their attention and brings a smile to their face.

One last photo of our living room..



And indeed, the decision to hack away the wall to make it into glass was one of the best decision made. The whole area looks bigger but yet not compromising the room to be part of the living room or the other way round.

This shall be the last entry regarding my house! I do hope I've not missed out anything and I hope all these posts are useful to people getting their keys soon. The links for other blog entries regarding my house are below as well as the various links!

Feel free to email me if there's anything else you will like to know and I'll try my best to reply :)

Related blog entries to my flat:

My New Flat: Getting the keys
My New Flat: Checking the Defects and Having them Rectified
My New Flat: Starting the Renovation
Renovation Week 1
Renovation Week 2
Renovation Week 2
Renovation Week 4
Commonly asked questions about home renovation

Living Room:

T5 Cover Lights for Living Room - http://detail.tmall.com/item.htm?id=20829815377&spm=a1z09.2.9.163.Fzfi3E&_u=d1si6bjmaf75

Sparkling/Diamond down lights for Living Room and Masterbedroom Entrance - http://detail.tmall.com/item.htm?spm=a230r.1.14.24.RCoyE1&id=19990554073&abbucket=1&_u=d1si6bjm81bb

LED Strip Lights - http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a1z09.2.9.207.FJf6a9&id=14073725594&_u=d1si6bjme467

Grass Sticker for Electrical Box - http://meaka.taobao.com/shop/view_shop.htm?spm=a1z09.2.9.20.sfYXpr&user_number_id=1816829672&v=1

DIY Tree in Living Room - http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a1z09.2.9.174.erhKqU&id=4601446061&_u=d1si6bjm8f69 ,

DIY Tree Branch above Dining Table -  http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a1z09.2.9.174.erhKqU&id=4601446061&_u=d1si6bjm8f69

Leisure Room/Study Room:

Bean Bag Cover - http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a1z09.2.9.177.FJf6a9&id=18156269040&_u=d1si6bjmb933

Rilakkuma Wall Sticker - http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a1z09.2.9.13.sfYXpr&id=20037197484&_u=d1si6bjm7c1e

One Piece Sticker on Glass Door - http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a1z09.2.9.109.VKY7rz&id=37562980755&_u=d1si6bjm0a7b

One Piece Sticker on Wall - http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a1z09.2.9.101.VKY7rz&id=37541151867&_u=d1si6bjm47b3

Soft Carpet for Leisure/Study Room - http://huaxu.tmall.com/shop/view_shop.htm?spm=a1z09.2.9.98.erhKqU&user_number_id=1129549036&v=1

Toilets: 

Towel/Clothes hanger/ Hair Dryer holder - http://store.taobao.com/shop/view_shop.htm?spm=a1z09.2.9.65.Fzfi3E&user_number_id=702207566

Service Yard: 
Rilakkuma Laundry Bags - http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?spm=a1z09.2.9.180.VKY7rz&id=14768629124&_u=d1si6bjm6212

Curtains/BlindsHome Curtains and Blinds

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  1. Beautifully done! :)

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    1. Thanks babe for your compliment :):)

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  2. Although this apartment seems quite spacious, it has that small space feel. I find this a very different look, but obviously one that is suitable for the modern day couple in a bustling metropolitan city who don't have time for frivolities. This neat and clean look will always work for busy people because it is easy to maintain. More colour will do no harm.

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  3. Anonymous1:23 PM

    hello is it possible for u to share the link of the fan and light in the master bedroom? Its very nice. THANKS!

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    1. Hi there's a few lights in the masterbed room (1 ceiling fan + light, 1 light for wadrobe, 1 light for the area outside toilet, light for the feature wall behind the bed). May I know which one are you referring too? :) Do feel free to email me or leave down your email so we can follow up from there then.

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  4. Beautifully Done.

    Liked the Chairs much.

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  5. Loved the kids area, master bedroom

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  6. What is the width of your vanity top in the master bedroom? From the floorplan, it seems to impede the opening of the door.

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    1. Hi,

      The vanity top is provided by HDB. 20cm excluding the basin area. Door has been changed to bi-fold door.

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  9. Anonymous10:14 PM

    hi, i came across your blog while doing research for my new hdb house.
    I am also thinking about installing LED strip lights for my toilets, but I am unsure of the electrical aspects of it.
    how do you decide what wattage/voltage of LED to buy? Do you also need to buy an electrical driver box for it?
    Thanks so much!

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    1. Hi,

      it will depends on how bright you want. Of course the higher the watt is, the brighter it will be. Mine is the 5 watts per meter to create a dim/cosy effect. The one I bought from tao bao came with a electrical driver.

      Hope I answer your qn!

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